Photo above: The Branch Davidians’ “Mount Carmel Center” compound near Waco, Texas, burns during an attack by FBI Agents on 2-28-1993. Introduction This Essay presents our sketches...
Smaller Religions & Modern Cults

Photo above: The Branch Davidians’ “Mount Carmel Center” compound near Waco, Texas, burns during an attack by FBI Agents on 2-28-1993. Introduction This Essay presents our sketches...
Above — Notre Dame de Paris (“Our Lady of Paris,”) Cathedral. Begun in 1163, largely completed 1260. The roof was lost to fire in 2019. Reconstruction was begun. Medieval Cath...
Above — Paul of Tarsus, The Apostle Paul Introduction This is the second of three Essays on Christianity. Our first Essay, Evaluating Jesus’ Teaching, discussed the religion that was act...
Above — The Kaaba (“Cube”), Islam’s Holiest Site, in the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia “In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, the Ch...
An Indian Elephant and Three Buddhist Monks Walk Together Introduction This is another of our Essays that evaluates an important world religion or spiritual path. Our aim has been to compare ea...
–J.X. Mason’s Blog Post of 7-5-22— J.X. Mason is the author of www.ContinuingCreation.org The Buddha never saw that one day, science and technology would be able to solve much...
I have written evaluations of several of the World’s great religions, and I plan to write about more of them. In the evaluations, I try to list the Strengths & Shortcomings of each religio...
An Imagined Portrait of Lao Tzu-tzu, the Founder of Taoism Evaluating Taoism and Zen “Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe ...
Deism, Process Theology, Stoicism, Freemasonry, Positivism, Secular Humanism, Existentialism, Skepticism, Pragmatism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism: These are the theologies and philosophies tha...
The Hindu God Shiva performs his “Dance of Creation, Destruction, & Creation Anew” Evaluating Hinduism Hinduism is an unlikely mix of abstract theology and a huge cast of wild a...